[Dynagroove] dress code Ecco

[Cade Nelson]

Whoa...

well I guess that's Hollywood for you.  this was how Boardner's wanted free
thinking to run back in the day.  In the end it all comes down to greed.
The club wants money.  the bouncers want money/women.  Guys want to pay
extra to look cool for getting the girls in.

I highly dount the club will always get this type of draw every wed...

I was going to check it out but got sent out of town..

Cade

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:56 AM, HS HD <hshd510 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Amy, let me tell you something about Ecco and the dress code; your friend
> didn't get in because he was sporting Pumas instead of John Lobbs - not the
> case at all. On Migs night I too visited Ecco Hollywood - The new "green"
> eco-friendly nightclub that took over our once frequented and laid-back
> Tokio venue on Cahuenga. It was a very last minute decision to go and I
> didn't buy presales nor did I hit up anyone for any guestlist which equaled
> two major mistakes on my part right away.
>
> Short story long... I came early and was about 6th in line at 9:30PM...I
> didn't get in until 11:15PM. I'm generally an incredibly patient person to
> begin with so I decided to wait it out to see what kind of experience it
> would be and to watch the activities unfold.
>
> So... at 9:30PM who was being let in? Not the block-long line of house
> heads
> that came to see Miguel Migs...nope! I proceeded to watch the bouncers let
> in only the hottest girls for a good hour and a half - 60% of them actually
> did have guest list the other 40% were invited by the bouncers without them
> even asking or else they batted their eyelashes a few times and the
> dickforbrain beefheads let them right through. Also while I was standing
> there the bar staff and the bouncers kept soliciting the regular people who
> were already in line to buy bottle service and I listened to the staff
> sucker in a couple parties that had to pay upwards of $450 per bottle of
> grey goose with a 3 person maximum and they were a large party so double
> that + gratuity + service fee = ouch < or = retarded; I also listened to
> the
> staff try to win back interested table buyers by lowering their prices
> because they admittedly (to themselves) knew they were price gouging and
> bragging to themselves what a great deal they were making off of these (for
> lack of a better word) "suckers."
>
> Seeing all this go down was about the only reason why I didn't bail 30
> minutes into the wait - it was pretty unbelievable and as a curious cat who
> loves my Migs just decided to wait it out to see what kind of operation was
> going on.
>
> So while all the door people are watching the silicone field trip flow in
> one by one I noticed the bouncers seemed to have their own personal guest
> list too which included the 10% of the guys that were actually able to cut
> in line - all of which were dressed Hollywood casual aka just look nice and
> presentable - no 70's style jersey shorts on the guys, no hats even though
> the bouncers were allowed to sport them. So the dress code really wasn't
> the
> big deal.  The real question was who ELSE had the privilege of having to
> wait in line?
>
> Is that Josh Heath - LABEL MATES with MIGUEL MIGS who told the bouncers he
> was on Mig's personal list and STILL had to wait about 30-40 minutes. If
> that's not bad enough let's have LISA SHAW who is PERFORMING with Migs also
> wait for about 20 minutes as she was being passed from bouncer to bouncer
> each claiming someone else was taking care of the list. REALLY? oh, you're
> Lisa Shaw? Can you get somebody to confirm this is Lisa Shaw? Anybody? No?
> Wait here we'll get the other guy - he should know. The staff literally
> didn't know their ASS from a HOLE in the ground letting Hollywood hookers
> in
> left and right into their party but you don't know a face like Josh and
> Lisa? WOW - that's house priorities?
>
> So after this short wait; the bouncer finally came around and let a couple
> of us in. Big fucking deal right about now.  I walked in and the place is
> Saturday night fever mixed with minimalistic boring almost heartless decor.
> The dance floor is about 187.5% too light as they have constant flickering
> super-bright LEDs hanging over your head on low ceilings.  Everyone I
> talked
> to there hated how bright it was but not as much as they hated how UTTERLY
> HOT it was.  If hell had a summer season that season would be called Ecco.
> No ventilation, no movement of air...two AC vents that literally only
> affected the 1 square foot of space it blew out to in the very back of the
> club.  I danced for about 10 minutes and was ready to collapse. Sound was
> pretty good - I wasn't super impressed but for the size of the venue it's
> what to except. Drink prices were the same about $9 for a kettle tonic that
> was really A LOT more tonic than kettle but to be completely fair to both
> sides the bartenders DID have their tips worth spent on their jiggly
> silicone enhancements - horray once again for $500 dollar bottles of vodka!
> suckers!
>
>
> Nothing really stands out at the club as its focus is really on the gaudy
> discotec of a dance floor - its multicolored lights against the background
> of everything that is the club; a lifeless void of black and gray.  The
> center floor becomes the main spectacle, leaving you with no special nooks
> and crannies where you can hide away and just be relaxed or get lost in a
> moment; instead the bright LEDs put everyone on display in all their
> sweaty,
> overly makeup-ed glory.   It was like being trapped in the middle of an old
> color TV set where you are caught between the boob and the tube....if that
> makes sense, no? well neither did that night.
>
> So please don't get discouraged about what you are wearing when you
> approach
> the doors at Ecco because I don't think it really matters.  It doesn't
> matter if you are a house head who supported the scene for years with a
> passion to see the music progress in new ways; for the music to reach new
> people...nope. None of this matters. You either need to spend $450 on a $30
> bottle or spend 10x's that on your wiggly-jiggly enchancements - this is
> the
> key to experiencing what house is really about; this is the key to the
> movement, this is what it has become.  House is not a feeling, it's not a
> spiritual thing, it's not a soul thing. House comes down to a list and if
> you aren't on it - well...your loss...or.... is it?
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